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First post, by halo200x

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I have dosbox 0.65 mounted my game folder for elderscrolls:arena c:\arena\arena and the arena.bat is in that folde rbut for some reason it wont run it i dunno if this is game specific or not but i have gotten wolf3d to run and dangerous dave but i forgot how i did them

Reply 1 of 6, by Lofty

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Tell us exactly what you type. It should be something like:
mount c c:\arena\arena
c:
arena

Reply 2 of 6, by Freddo

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Lofty wrote:
Tell us exactly what you type. It should be something like: mount c c:\arena\arena c: arena […]
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Tell us exactly what you type. It should be something like:
mount c c:\arena\arena
c:
arena

Arena won't work if it's located in the root of C. It has to be in a folder. So it should be something like:
MOUNT C C:\ARENA
C:
CD ARENA
ARENA

The soundsetting could be another thing that stops the game from working if it got the wrong settings.

Reply 3 of 6, by Dominus

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Freddo, a bit wrong, in your way it IS in the root 😀
Arena should be in something like c:\Games\Arena, then start dosbox and type
MOUNT c C:\Games
c:
cd Arena
Arena

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Reply 4 of 6, by Freddo

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Dominus wrote:

Freddo, a bit wrong, in your way it IS in the root 😀

Not really since he have the game in c:\arena\arena

Reply 6 of 6, by avatar_58

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This is why its better to have one directory (eg. C:\dos) that you use as your virtual "C:" drive for dosbox, and then let the games install and behave as if C:\dos was root. Some games really don't like being root.